Articles by Kate Sheppard
Kate Sheppard was previously Grist's political reporter. She now covers energy and the environment for The Huffington Post. Follow her on Twitter.
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Palin gives first big speech on ‘strategic energy independence’
Sarah Palin in Toledo, Ohio. Photo: Madalyn Ruggiero / AP For weeks now, GOP presidential candidate John McCain has been saying that in his administration, VP Sarah Palin would serve as energy czar, since she “knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America.” For the first time since […]
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McCain adviser challenges idea of regulating CO2 under the Clean Air Act
McCain senior policy adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin was on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday talking about the need for the next president to enact “comprehensive policies” to create jobs as well as a “real energy policy.” He also took on the recent assertion from Obama’s advisers that their candidate would regulate carbon dioxide as a […]
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Biden spreads love with coal flacks in Va.
Remember that whole debate a few weeks ago over whether Joe Biden hearts “clean coal”? Well, here’s some photographic evidence, from an Obama-Biden rally in Suffolk, Va., last week. Images are courtesy of the coal shills themselves, from their “Behind the Plug” blog, where they wrote, “With just nine days left in the campaign, we […]
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A roundup of greenish news from the presidential campaign trail
• Not shocking, considering how many “clean coal” ads we’ve seen this election season, but The Wall Street Journal looks at what Big Coal is doing to make sure its industry is on the candidates’ minds this year. The coal-mining industry as a whole has given $2,640,226 to candidates this election cycle, but that’s just […]
